Wall construction



July 31, 1928.V 1,679282 4 G. F. VOIGHT WALL CONSTRUCTION July 31, 192s; l 2 1,619,282

G. F. VOIGHT WALL CONSTRUCTION Filed July 26. i922 2 sheets-sheet 2 Patented July 31, 1928.

y UNITED STATES GEORGE F. VOIGHT, F OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO-ECONCMY CORPORATON, A GOREORATION OF C34.1211?ORNA.fv

PATENT ortica.

PRODUCTS WALL CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed July 26,

My invention relates to improvements in wall construction particularly adapted for :trarne buildings, having sheathing boards secured across the face .of the .wall studs as a backing for the exterior plastic composition, the sheathing boards provided with a covering of building paper prior to the application of the plastic material to protect them against any moisture that may penetrate through or be contained in the plaster.r

One of the objects of the present invention is the provision of building paper provided on4 its face side with furring ribs for spacing the wire netting commonly use-d for rein--y forcing the plast-ic composition of exterior work, a distance outwardly from the sheathing boards.

A further object is to provide relatively soft fibrous liurring members or ribs against.

which the relatively hard wire netting may be securely bound without danger of injuring the netting or the galvanizing with which it is preferably coated, which injury would be likely to occur if the urring members were formed of metal and a metal-tometal contact thereby obtained.

Vith the foregoing and still further object-s and purposes in view which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the pre cise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invent-ion.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fragmental portion of the wall of av frame building constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a view in elevation of a roll of the builders paper vcomprising one of the elements ot my wall construction; a portion of the paper being shown iin-rolled.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3, Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on line 3-3, Fig. 2, but with the inner or body sheet of the paper removed. p v

Figure 5 is a sectional plan view approximately on line 5-5, Fig. 1, showing in addi- 1922. Serial No.` 577,595.

tion a wall stud disposed against the back of the sheathing boards.

Figure 6 is a vertical sectional view on line 6-6, Fig. 2, a. portion being broken away.

Figures-7 and 8 are views ofport-ions of the present invention in modiiied forms in that the spacing projections orribs are pro? The numeral 10 designates supporting.

studs which form the skeleton of the wall of the building and to the outer' sides of which are secured, by nailing or otherwise, sheathboards 11, which are laid preferably in close edge-wise order so as to form, as nearly as practicable., a 'continuous board sheathing of approximately equal thickness.

Upon the outer side of the sheathing 11 is disposed a layer of builders paper 12, which comprises primary sheets 12', and secondary strips 13, the latter spaced suitable distances apart, vertically and extend,longitudinally along the length of the former and are intende-d to be permanently cemented thereto.

Into the. body of the secondary strips 13, at regular intervals, are formed, by pressing suitable ind-entures across the face of the strips, furring ribs or projections 14.

It will be noticed that in Fig. 1 the strips 13 are disposed upon the primary sheet 12 at unusual distances apart vertically. l/Vhile in practice it makes very little if any difierence as to the exact disposition of the strips relative to the sheet, I, however, prefer to place them upon the sheet in regular and equally spaced order 'as best illustrated in The number of strips 13 disposed on a single sheet of ,the primary paper 12 is best determined by the width of the sheet, the distances the strips are spaced away from each, and the width of the strips.

The furring gibs 14, also the strips 18 if desired, may be hardened and made additionally rigid by subjecting the same to a suitable cement bath, under pressure if preferred, or may otherwise be treated to give saine any desired rigidity.

The strips 13 are preferably arranged upon the sheets 12 so that the furring ribs 14 will be disposed in staggered formation, as indicated in Figs. l and i2.

15 designates i'ilasterers Wire or netting, which comprises a plurality of intentnisted Wires formed into hexagonal meshes 1G, and which netting is disposed against the outer sides of the ribs 1l and to which it is secured by means of fastening elements 17, which straddle portions of the netting in engagement with the ribs, and also straddle the ribs and are driven through the sheets 12 into the boards 11.

t is to be understood that any suitable wire netting, having suitable meshes, may be substituted for the netting shown and described herein; also that an;v suitable tastening devices may be employed instead ot the elements 17; and also that said `fastening elements, or devices, may be driven along side of the ribs 1d Without straddling them, or may be driven directly through the ribs.

In Fig. l, the heavy horizontal lines forining portions of the draniingi's ot the plasterers netting, indicate portions of the wires inter-twisted (refer to Fig. 5).

Vslhile throughout the drawings, intertwistcd portions of the netting 15 only are shown in engagement with the urring ribs 14, it is obvious that any portion of the netting may be disposed in engagement therewith and secured thereto by the fastening elements 17 driven through the paper 12 into the boards 11.

18 designates the plastic element forming the outer coating of my wall construction, which may be formulated and mixed in any manner suitable and is preferably applied by spreading it against the face of the paper and on and around the meshes of the reinforcement.

The object of the netting 1 5 is to reinforce the plaster and to hold same in place against the face of the wall while in the plastic state.

In the modification of the invention, as illustrated in Figs. 7, 8 and 9, the numeral 20 designates a filler element fitted snugly into the hollow of the ribs 11i and is intended to reinforce the Walls of the ribs to prevent collapsing thereof when accidentally subjecting to an abnormal blow of a hammer or like hand tool, as when applying the reinforcement thereagainst.

The filler 20 may be formed of wood, cement, clay, papier-mch, or any other suitable material.

I claim:

1. In means of the character described. a sheet of paper having substantially parallel site edges, and a plurality of relatively narrow strips of paper disposed in spaced order across the tace side of said sheet in paral .lclism with said side edges, said strips pro- `vided with spacing members adapted to sup-` GEORGE F. VOIGHT. 

